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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH
Influences that Have Brought About an AL
together New Order of Things.

Influences that Have Brought About an AL
together New Order of Things.
Brig. Gen. John T. Wilder returned to
Indianapolis from the reunion of his bri-
gade at Greencastle. off you are will
ing" said a Journal reporter to the gen.
erai, 81 would like you to tell me some
thing of the condition and sentiment of
the southern people,"
II have no objection to talking" he re-
piled, "but / will warn you, to begin with,
that comparatively few people will be-
lieve what say. There have been such
conflicting statements from the south,
and northern men have SO fixed their
theories on political bias, that men of
both the great parties get to one side or
the other of the truth, and both parties
are still farther mislead by supposition
that the south of to-day is the south of
fifteen years ago. It is not what it was
fifteen years ago, nor ten years ago, nor
five years ago; in fact, there has been
more change in the last five years than
in all of the remaining period since the
war. Understand me now am speak
ing not merely of the commercial and in
dustrial features of the south, but of the
people themselves, in their social and
political relations"
'What has produced the change you
refer tor
ssSome of it Is due to changed circum-
stances, some to growth, some merely to
the effects of time. Just after the close
the war there was naturally bitter feel
ing among southern men. The people
had suffered heavy losses. Their pride
had been crushed. The lower classes
felt that they had been deceived by their
leaders, who had representen that the
north had neither the will nor the power
to subdue them. The bitterness was
doubled by the emancipation and en-
frapchisement of the slaves. At this
time many northern men went to the
south Some of them mere adventures;
others were honest, bat they we're vision
sriss, who expected to change the nature
of the southern people and speedily give
them the habits of life and modes of
thought of the north. At the same time
there was through the communities
a profigate mode of living due to the
long continuance of war, which brought
many families to distress. Under the re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
Mr.. P0Wderly interviewed.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. BIN an interview
to-day, Mr.. Powderly admitted that the
membership of the Knights of Labor is
less than it was, but add.1 that they I'M
understood each other much better.
There were a great many who came into
the organization through the excitement
of the times, and not having the interest
of the order at heart were dropped out.
Being asked if the many branches of the
labor government did not mean internal
dissolution, Mr. Powderly said no; and
added that the time will come when all
these several divisions of the labor move
ment will unite into one grand reform Or
ganization.
On the question of politics he holds
that the great mass of working people
are all wrong. They look too high. His
principle which he wishes to inculcate
into the minds of all workingmen is that
they should atteEd to their local politics
and affairs of state will take care of them
selves. When this is accomplished the
labor movement will have reached 3
point where it's foundation is secure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AN express train struck and smashed
the buggy driven by Peter Tobias, a
wealthy farmer, near Springfield, Ohio,
Tuesday. One of the spokes Of the
vehicle was driven through Tobias brain.
The propeller California, laden with
corn and pork, was wrecked off st.
Helena's island, near Mackinaw City
Mich, Tuesday morning. Of the twenty
seven persons on board thirteen per-
ished. The California was insured for
$4,000
The packing house of the Diamond
Match company, two story brick build
ing 1O0x5O feet was burned. It contain
ed largy quantity of match blocks and
valuable new machine for making
matches. Loss, $4,000 and no insur-
ance.
THE boiler in the eng inc room of the
George P. Plant Milling Company's flour
mill at st. Louis exploded Monday, killing
four mon and a woman and wOunding
the engineer. Pieces of the flying boiler
wrecked a two-story dwelling and livery
stable.
DURING the high wind an alarm of fire
was received from the old asylum, six
miles from Toledo, Ohio, frame struc-
ture. There are some three hundred in
mates, and the alarm caused great anxiety
for their safety. The fire originated in
the drying room of the laundry depart
ment and spread rapidly, burning the
whole annex. The laundry, gas house,
bakery and engine-room were in flames
almost instantly. For some time it was
feared the whole building was doomed.
All that could be done was to keep the
flames from spreading to the asylum
proper. The roads were so muddy and
the distance SO great that it was almost
an hour from the time when the fire
fist started to the time of the arrival of
the fire department. The fire was ex-
tipguished after a loss of about $4,000.
While the inmates were frantic with ex-
citement, none of them were injured SO
far as reported.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

construction governments there was 70
say the least, mismanagement and souan
dering or the public funds. Texas grew
until there was absolute danger of con-
nscatlon of landed estates for the sup
port OF local governments. Then the
huslux system was organized and by it
the wnite administrations built on negro
votes were broken down. To some ex-
tent the huklux movement was founded
on an honest desire for endurable local
government. but it went to far. and made
no distinction between good and bad.
Under that system the government
passed into the hands of indicative and
merclless men, who used their power.
lawful and unlawful, to crafty their per-
sonal sp1tes. The state of affairs became
so bad that the people themselves revolt
ed against IL and put an end to it. This
was proof positive to them that pubIic
m1sfortunes were not limited to negro
governments alone; and at the same time
they began to realize that their personal
mlsfortunes were not due altogether to
the negro governments, as they had i'm
agined.
Ihelr poverty alone must have work
ed some change in them?''
W SouioO 10 1n6 OLD southern
hosp itality-a generosity that was pro
mInent IN slavery days-could not be
maintained in condition Of poverty.
Neither could plantations be worked sue
cessfully on the old plan, for the negroes
began to desire interests IN land and
would not work without it. By this
period manufacturing had begun to be
of some Importance. Chattanooga was a
conspicuous success. The iron business
had taken the lead and wood workers had
followed. sThe progress never stopped.
In seventeen years 121 factories have
sprung up in that city alone. Then came
the Georgia cotton exposition. A great
many southern people went to it. Thew
were astonished to learn the resources of
their region. The people were set a
thinking, and great impulse was given
to manufacturing. We printed maps and
statistics and circulated them; we talked
the matter of development of home re-
sources and through these agencies the
south awoke to the fact that the progress
of pure agricultural community can
never get beyond certain point. They
began to appreciate the value of diverse
occupations and home markets for agri
cultural produce"
"Was this development general through
the south?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
The Village Doctor.

One of the most entertaining people in
the village is the doctor; for however
closely he may be allied with his patient
community he must also be to a greater
or less extent man of the world. The
time you spend with him will surely not
be thrown away-Unless you visit him in
his professional capacity; then it will all
depend on circumstances. A doctor if
America IL very apt to have been a travel
Ter, aud being an American to have seen
great deal that an ordinary traveller
misses. The knowledge of che inside of
his fellow creatures seems to assist him
IN observing facts connected with their
external environment; he is comparative
~ free from prejudices, and his opinion
upon things In general is dictated by
solid common sense. His professional
training tends to sharpen his insight into
human nature, and if his own nature be
sociable and humane, he forms many
agreeable acquaintance in all parts of
the world. In the seclusion of his rural
study, seadowed by the elm tree on the
lawn, and rendered fragrant by the lilac
bush under the window, he cons over the
latest discoveries in science, and medita-
tes wisely and discriminating upon
politics literature and art. He is amib-
ly skeptical, and he is cheerful by force
of professional habit; you may interest
and amuse him, but you can scarcely
surprise him; and he will easily detect
in you and demurely satirize, any tenden-
cy to indulge in the Munchausen vein.
Pretty Irish Girls at Horse Race.
A Dublin correspondent of the New
York World writes: I went to the horse
-, H. fhn
pose of seeing the people more than the
horses. Throug bout the great gathering
I did not see a single sign of poverty or
lack of comfort. 1t was an exceptionally
handsome, we'll dressed crowd. 1t was
much better looking gathering than those
[ saw at the Assotor of tho Derby. The
ladies in particular were mush handsomer
and dressed with much better taste. The
material of their dresses was not more
expensive, but the colors were harmon
ious, and the dresses were all we'll made.
I saw more pretty girls at this horse
show in one day than 1 nave seen in all
England during the last five months.
The Irish girls, as class have fine,
straight, willowy figures, regular features
and intensely fair compilations. These
fair, delicate com pIexions, however, break
early, SO that the old ladies of Ireland
are quite as ugly and plain as those of
England. It was a splendid-looking
crowd. They appeared very much like
English people in their quiet ways and
mattsr-of- fact enjoyment of the jumping
of the horses. but they spoke much bet
ter English than their English cousins,
and where any brogue was heard it was
so slight as to add piquancy to the man
ner of speaking.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

is to be married next week to Mdlle Soto
mayer. the famous Spanish heiress, whom
the Queen Regent has just created
duchess in honor of the event.
TIE Corean government has appointed
PncE Ginning Jan minister plenipoten-
tiary to the United States, and has also
appointed ambassadors to represent the
government at London, Paris, Berlin. aud
st. Petersburg.
REV. f. D. O'REAGAN, dean of the Cath
Ollie church at Mltchellstown, has OBJ
tanned summons against Capt. Plunkett
for treaspass for entering the
deans grounds at the head of a force
of police and hussars, and dispensing
crowd assembled there on the occasion
of the conviction of William O'Bryan.
A report sent from Tangier on the I'd
was incorrect A dispatch fror. that
place today states that he is still alive.
but his death is momentarily ex pected
Col. BLUNT has rendered his services
as commander of gendarmes at SMYRNA
in consequence of depredations of bril-
gands infesting the country whereabouts,
particularly the recent capture of an
Englishman and holding him for ransom.
The grand vizier has the proposition I'M
der consideration.
ARCHDUKE JOHN, in letter to the Aus
tro-Hungarian army from London. indi-
Gates that his retirement from the army
was compulsory. tits believed that the
archduke is the author of an ANONYMOUS
pamphlet criticising the army, published
recently at Leipsic, and that this fact, in
addition to his outspoken criticisms,
were the reasons for his sus pension from
military command.
LATER reports from China respecting
the China-American banker and tele
graphic syndicate for which County
Mitkiewiez negotiated concessions, are
very conflicting. It is stated that Yen,
president of the board of revenue, has
strongly petitioned the empress not to
grant the proposed concessions, and the
China Merchants company has repudiat-
all connection with the syndicate. Eng
lish interests in China have been endea-
voring to prevent the final consumma-
ton Of the grant to America
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
Terrible are the Raya@es

Upon the system inflicted by diseases of the kid
neys and bladder They wreck the constitution
more speedily in some cases than consumption
and other maladieS of fatal pulmonary type As
you value your life, arrest tendency to DEBILITY
aud consequent inactivity of the renal organs.
should you experience any such. lnfuse yigor
ana activity into the vitality important secretive
action of the kidneys with that salutary duretic,
Hostetter's stomach Bitters. The proper degree
of stimulation is impaired by it to the bladder
also, when that organ is sluggish With this time
y check Brght's disease, diabetis, catarrh of the
bladder and other kindred disorders, may be
prevented. Liver complaint, constipation, nerv-
Gus ailments and rheumatism, are likewise con-
auerable with this sovereign household remed
Against the effects of exposure in damp or other
wise incement weather. it is a benign safeguard,
and revives strength after undue fatigue.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
The Keynete OF LincoIn's Life.

Abraham Lincoln was at one time post
master Of the little village of New Salem.
He was hard pressed for money just as
the collector came round to receive the
balance for the government. 4 friend
who knew the young postmaster offered
him loan. Lincoln took down an old
stocking, and poured out $3.50 IL cop
per coins, the exact amount received for
postage. With a twinkle in his eye. he
turned TO his friend and said: s.What do
I want of money? I never use govern
ment money for personal purposes"
That was the keynote of his life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
CRIME.

IT is stated that John Kemper has
made confession that he murdered his
brother, Henry Kemper, who was found
dead in his grocery at Cincinnati in De-
cember, 1885. A negro who was tried fo1
the murder was aquitted. John Kemper is
alleged to have made the confession after
he had been fatally injured in railway
accident.
THE lone highwayman of Texas on
Monday night again robbed the stage
coach which he captured few days ago
There were only six people and $50 in
the crowd, but the booty obtained from
the mail-pouch is not known.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

One can scarcely ever step out upon a
thoroughfare without having his feelings
sorely hurt by the cruelty SO commonly
practiced toward the patient and faithful
horse. The stroke of the lash sounds on
all sides; while coarse and angry threats
and urgings are heard continually. As a
rule, on starting, the lash precedes the
word of command; and the first notice
the poor horse has, is cut with the
whip, often vicious one too. Not un-
frequently so keen and crGel is the stroke
that the heart the sympathizer for the
moment stopA1ts beat; and he suffers
almost as severely as he would had the
lash fell upon him instead of the horse.
The heavier the load and the more worn
and weary the poor horse, the more the
lash is applied by the inhuman brate who
rides and drives. All men are not thus
Many are perhaps unconscious of the ex
tent of their cruelty, while many more
are cruel by nature and disposition
The extent of this almost universal
i'll treatment and abuse of the nobIest
and most useful of all animals, is attested
by the fact that not one horse in ten that
some injury or blemish caused by mans
inhumanity. What comment on civil
ization, and on the Christian pretense OF
the age. Brutality in the family is mostly
concealed from public notice for very
shame's sake; but the man who can be
wantonly cruel to his ever honest and
willing horse, is brute in his home and
gentleman nowhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

Mr. Greeley's humor was of peculiar
sort, but it was allied to genius. One
evening an associate editor of the rIbune
accosted him as he came into his desk
with some such question as this:
Didn't yon know, Mr.. Greeley, that
you made a dreadful blunder In one Of
your statistical editorials this morning ?"
ssNo; HOY was it?" said Mr.. Greeley.
"Why, you said something about Held
sleek aud champagne Don't you kno
Heidsieck is champag ne?"
"Well," said Mr.. Greeley; II am the
only editor of this paper that could make
that mistake"
On another occasion "a person who
wished to have little fun at the expense
of his consistency said, in a group where
Mr.. Greeley was standing:
sMr. Greeley and |, gentlemen, are old
friends. We have drunk great deal of
brandy and water Together
"Yes," said Mr.. Greeley, shat is true
enough. You drank the brandy and l
drank the water.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
The Telephone of1665
North American R.yiew

"There is nothing new under the sum-"
not even the telephone. Permit me to
state that in the year 1865 there was pub
lished in England book with the title of
"Micrographia." The author was DIR.
Robert Hooke, a celebrated scientist,
mathematician and philosopher, who was
born in the Isle of Wight in 1886 and ed
ucated at Oxford. The work referred to
contains various philosophical descrip-
tions of minute bodies made by magnify
ing glasses, as indicated in the title, to-
gether with "Observations and Inquir-
les" on them. In the preface the lear
ned scientist asserts that the lowest
whispers by certain means which he
does not make public) may be heard at
the distance of a furlong; that he knew a
way by which it is easy to hear anyone
speak through wall three feet thick,
and that by means of wire sound may
be conveyed to very great distance al
most IN an instant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The National farmers alliance ad-
journed its annual session at Minneapolis
Thursday to meet next year in Des
Moines, Iowa. The alliance elected j.
N. Burrows, of Nebraska, president; Ex-
Senator L. d. Whitney, of Illinois, vice
president; August Post, OF Iowa, secre-
AIRY; j. j. Furlong, of Minnesota, treas
urer, and A. D. Chase, of Dakota, lee
turer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

ExGov. WILLIAM B. WAsHBURN, of
Springfield, Mass, dropped dead at about
10 o'clock Wednesday morning while in
the ante room of the city hall. He was
in attendance upon the morning session
of the board of foreign missions when
death overlook him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

Two brothers named Moran, from Ar
dake, Dakota, en- route for Canada were
asphyxiated by gas in Chicago hotel,
Monday night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

IT cost young Schnaebeles, this son of
his French dad, three weeks impriso n
ment and twenty marks fine to cross the
frontier and affix reasonable placard
upon tree by the roadside.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The Nebraska republicans In state con-
vention Wednesday night and Thursday,
nominated Judge Samuel Maxwell as
judge of the supreme court and R.
Davis and George Roberts as regents OF
the state university.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The Mexican congress will pass the
resolution now pending before that body
approving the constitutional amendment
permitting the re-clectiont of President
Diaz for a second term. Two-thirds of
the states have ratified the amendment
and this gives it the force of law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

ARRANGEMENTS are reported tic have
been made for direct telegraph route
from China to Europe. This if consul
mated Will give the reading public news
daily direct from China.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The president visited the military en-
cam pment at Chicago Thursday morning.
Mrs. Cleveland wisely remained at the
hotel and rested the while.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

Four more deaths from cholera have
occurred on Swineburn island, which
makes a total of fourteen deaths from
the disease since the landing of the
present ten others sick with the disease.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

mbly of the Knights of Labor opened
IN Minneapolis Monday morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

By the explosion of an old boiler in a
flour mill at st. Louis Monday morning,
four persons we're killed and two others
seriously injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The one great question to be discussed
by the Farmers Alliance at Minneapolis
is cooperative buying and selling, and it
will occupy much : the time of the con
ven ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The tug Orient sunk on Lake Huron
Wednesday and her crew of SIX men
erished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of Lon
don, delivered a eulogy upon tae late
Henry Ward Beecher, at the Brooklyn
academy of music last night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The separation of the B. d o. railroad
and the B. d. O.. telegraph is complete.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The lake passenger propeller, Cali
fornia, foundered and went to pieces off
st. Helena, in lake Michigan, early Tues
day morning, and fourteen lives were
lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

IT is stated in New York that the terms
by which the Western Union telegraph
company is to absorb the Baltimore 81
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

The sale of the B. d o. telegraph to
the w. U. company has been completed
and the contract signed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13

New York Life says: "Three dollars
will send child to the country for two
weeks" Cheap enough; but ten cents
worth of green apples will send child to
heaven for eternity.